14M Windows 10 Installs In 24 Hours

Installed it on one machine, it's definitely a better OS than 8 or 7 if everything is ready. I'm not about to install it on my main machine for a while yet, I'm not a huge fan of early adopting... Just about anything.

The privacy options need to be streamlined, right now it looks like MS wants to be a sleazy as Google with information. I guess that's where the money is though, I hope people realise just how many toggles and work-arounds a user needs to be somewhat private on their machine.

For people who don't know, you can disable automatic driver downloads. You will want to do that.
 
I put it on an extra box I had. Not much to say. Adware POS!! It would not even import my favorites from IE let alone my favorites bar. The damn fools blocked the use of Add Blockers and Password scramblers. The new browser kind of SUXS!

10 did not like Acronis 12, it did let 13 install. Other than that it is a new buy from Acronis.

Re the adware: I guess that is how they planed on making money. Ass, Gas or Grass the ride's not free.

I have not found a place to manage add-ons in the browser yet, if there is such a thing.

Was using 8.1 without any start button mod. I was getting to like it.

The Search bar takes up too much real estate in the bottom left corner, should have bee a pop up.
 
I moved all my of business and home computers to windows 10, a total of 24 installs. Every install went butter smooth. The employees and family members are perfectly happy. I also noticed nice gains in framerate in guild wars 2. Its the only game i really play.
 
Twisted Kidney said:
Installed it on one machine, it's definitely a better OS than 8 or 7 if everything is ready. I'm not about to install it on my main machine for a while yet, I'm not a huge fan of early adopting... Just about anything.

The privacy options need to be streamlined, right now it looks like MS wants to be a sleazy as Google with information. I guess that's where the money is though, I hope people realise just how many toggles and work-arounds a user needs to be somewhat private on their machine.

For people who don't know, you can disable automatic driver downloads. You will want to do that.
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I thought about this as well and realized how much info they collect is quite amazing. Atleast they tell you you dont have a choice for the most part. They can collect all the info about my porn and gaming selection that they want.
 
the_servicer said:
Wait, how does it avoid problems?
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It bypasses the windows update software entirely and just downloads the OS. If you create a USB installer you also avoid windows having to create and delete partitions during installation.

The cleanest and most bug free way to install is to use a USB installer and choose clean install over your current OS.
 
Cabezone said:
Pretty much everyone should ignore the windows upgrade and make a USB installer.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

It avoids many of the in place upgrade problems.
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You MUST upgrade to Windows 10 first if you want it free - that's the fact and there's no getting around it: Windows 10 is free as an upgrade for the first year. You can't clean install it until you do the upgrade the first time.

People just keep missing this over and over and over again. It's FREE as an upgrade which is a requirement for the first installation - after that first time install as an upgrade, you can then clean install it anytime as much as you want.

But the FIRST INSTALL must be an upgrade so if you're going to take advantage of getting Windows 10 free of monetary cost, make an image or backup your current system, install the Windows 10 upgrade (assuming your qualifying product is a legit activated installation of Windows 7, 8, or 8.1), verify the upgrade is complete and shows activated, then wipe it and restore the previous OS image. After that you can clean install Windows 10 and never have to put in a Product Key - skip that step both times it's requested.

That's how it works.
 
Pieter3dnow said:
I don't mind you doing that but have you also alerted them on the many many privacy options and things you can not avoid where Windows 7/(8?) was pretty "easy".
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I bet you use an android phone. You agreed to the same things using G-apps.
 
whiz187 said:
I put it on an extra box I had. Not much to say. Adware POS!! It would not even import my favorites from IE let alone my favorites bar. The damn fools blocked the use of Add Blockers and Password scramblers. The new browser kind of SUXS!

10 did not like Acronis 12, it did let 13 install. Other than that it is a new buy from Acronis.

Re the adware: I guess that is how they planed on making money. Ass, Gas or Grass the ride's not free.

I have not found a place to manage add-ons in the browser yet, if there is such a thing.

Was using 8.1 without any start button mod. I was getting to like it.

The Search bar takes up too much real estate in the bottom left corner, should have bee a pop up.
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Edge does not support add-ons. It will come in October

Right click desktop, choose personalize and then start. turn on Use Start Full Screen

Right click taskbar, choose search, hidden or show search icon.
 
You can clean install over an existing windows. I did it last night via the above mentioned method. You cannot install to a blank drive.
 
Guess I'll have to try the USB way; tried the updater, just gave me the "something failed" after downloading everything. Hooray...
 
To be more specific, it will call it an upgrade but you can tell it not to keep anything.
 
MajorDomo said:
I've been waiting patiently for the past three days and still no download. Got a notice that it would be between 2 days and 2 weeks before I got my download notice.

Microsoft has already made their position clear on Windows 10, it's free and so are the updates for as long as the OS is supported. No fee ever.
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Try downloading at night. I had 2 windows 8.1 systems and I never reserved a copy or anything. On the 30th I finally reserved my copy, within 30 minutes both were upgrading. But it was like 2 AM.
 
I gave it a go with my HTPC then the family laptops .
after i`v seen its actually a pretty smooth process , i did it to my main PC
(all Windows 7 previously)

I`m pretty happy with the new OS , feels much less extreme a change than Win8 (which i`v never really used myself)
 
cyclone3d said:
That error specifically means that your HDD/SDD or your RAM is faulty.
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I hope that's what it is, Windows 7 was running fine. II've ran 5 passes of Memtest86, 5 hours of prime95 and chkdsk'ed the ssd (it's still under warranty:))
Found nothing so far. Currently searching for a better tool to check the ssd.
 
Twisted Kidney said:
The privacy options need to be streamlined, right now it looks like MS wants to be a sleazy as Google with information.
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Microsoft is as sleazy as google with information. And how can you say Win10 is better than Win7/8.1 after just a few hours of having it installed?
 
rezerekted said:
Microsoft is as sleazy as google with information. And how can you say Win10 is better than Win7/8.1 after just a few hours of having it installed?
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1) Days, it's way lighter on its feet. Not that that's the sole indication of quality. As it sits right now, this is vastly superior to 7 at release. (Note that I haven't installed it on my main machine.)

2) Microsoft is not anything like Google, Microsoft sells products, Google sells you. The difference in their business models is massive. We can all pretend that everyone is the same flavour of scum, but Google is special, they're your pimp in the online world. Nobody else has built such an incredible empire off data collection before. There isn`t a spy agency on earth that can collect, collate, and leverage information like Google.
 
Well, I see Microsoft trying to be just like google so they are the same scum to me.
 
hardware_failure said:
+1. I always do a fresh install vs upgrade if possible. Upgrading windows feels so... dirty.

I actually thought that was by far the majority consensus in a pc savvy community such as this one. Surprised to see so many people here upgrading.
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Used to be that consensus. I'd almost say its the minority now. Virtually no issues upgrading from a win7 system all the way through to 10. Unless you just want an excuse to clean up your rigs OS with a fresh install.
 
Restarting the Scroogled campaign is gona be a beatch!
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rezerekted said:
Well, I see Microsoft trying to be just like google so they are the same scum to me.
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That's not fair.

Give them a few months.

Linux has been improving lately, maybe if all of the gods of all of the religions and Superman get together it will be good by then...
 
TechLarry said:
Lets be real here.

Thats 14 million install ATTEMPTS in 24 hours.

It took me 4.
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I tried once on both of my main machines and it didn't do anything, so I canceled them and will wait. I may try my laptop since I don't really use it so if 10 messes it up, I don't really care.
 
Well, had to make a Home ISO since the Pro ISO asked for a Product Key. Forgot that I had Home Premium on this laptop.
It did the upgrade inside of Windows 7 and rebooted and now I am on a black screen that says upgrading Windows and it is at 9%.
 
rezerekted said:
Microsoft is as sleazy as google with information. And how can you say Win10 is better than Win7/8.1 after just a few hours of having it installed?
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People who were emotionally invested in 8 will jump to 10 being the End-All of OSes. I'll wait for a good reason to replace 7.

Clean install on a z97 test machine. Fast boot because it loads the UI pronto while continuing to load stuff in the background. Odd little Realtek audio install loop, had to reboot/continue install/reboot/continue install again. Needed Intel chipset drivers, I was surprised as all the chatter lead me to believe every driver would be automatically installed or downloaded and installed. Classic Shell beta might have some issues, as some tray items no longer worked correctly after installation.

Overall, meh.
 
pliskin679 said:
I moved all my of business and home computers to windows 10, a total of 24 installs. Every install went butter smooth. The employees and family members are perfectly happy. I also noticed nice gains in framerate in guild wars 2. Its the only game i really play.
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Same for me. I've converted 4 of my personal machines over, half my employees have made the move, and it has been exceptionally easy and smooth.

I did find that my Avira Professional antivirus got removed in the process, and there is a bug that won't let it install using the latest installer. Using a previous installer to reinstall avoids the issue, and it updates and works just fine.

I've been very impressed with the features and just about everything about it. And I was vehemently against windows 8 for a long time..
 
pliskin679 said:
I moved all my of business and home computers to windows 10, a total of 24 installs. Every install went butter smooth. The employees and family members are perfectly happy. I also noticed nice gains in framerate in guild wars 2. Its the only game i really play.
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I call BS. Anyone who says they moved all their business machines to a brand new, untested, unproven OS is telling fibs, smoking crack or running a business that doesn't rely on PC's to stay in business. Most businesses that hadn't previously moved to Windows 7 from XP did so in the past year. If I was to pull a number out of my ass I'd say 1% of businesses moved to Windows 8. Of the dozen businesses I support the single Windows 8 machine I've installed is a Surface 3 Pro.
 
pliskin679 said:
I moved all my of business and home computers to windows 10, a total of 24 installs. Every install went butter smooth. The employees and family members are perfectly happy. I also noticed nice gains in framerate in guild wars 2. Its the only game i really play.
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I would NEVER install a brand new OS on my customers computers, unless of course your joking...
THEN
I installed W10 on 7 servers, 162 workstations, my parents computer and my wifes 14 year old laptop. The laptop is now sentient and cooks breakfast for the whole family.
My daughter is no longer pregnant and my son quit smoking crack. Plus, peace was declared in the middle east. Not to mention, but those 7 servers have started mining bitcoins, pulling in about 52 a day.
 
not too fond of the giant black taskbar, and the AMD driver had errors after installing.
And Firefox just popped up after I clicked it 10 minutes ago. I think I am going to wait a long time before I put 10 on my other machines.
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Where the heck do I download it? The link to the tool keeps failing and saying 'something happened' and my windows wont auto update...grrrrr
 
Zepher said:
not too fond of the giant black taskbar,..
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Go to your start search, type "Taskbar Color"

The Personalization -> Colors menu lets you pick an accent color from the background, add transparency, and more. It's MUCH more appealing
 
Jim Kim said:
I would NEVER install a brand new OS on my customers computers, unless of course your joking...
THEN
I installed W10 on 7 servers, 162 workstations, my parents computer and my wifes 14 year old laptop. The laptop is now sentient and cooks breakfast for the whole family.
My daughter is no longer pregnant and my son quit smoking crack. Plus, peace was declared in the middle east. Not to mention, but those 7 servers have started mining bitcoins, pulling in about 52 a day.
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LMFAO
 
r00k said:
Go to your start search, type "Taskbar Color"

The Personalization -> Colors menu lets you pick an accent color from the background, add transparency, and more. It's MUCH more appealing
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I'll give that a shot if I can get my AMD drivers to load. My Laptop has dual graphics, HD4200 and HD5xxx, and I've tried 3 times so far and the driver installs but after reboot Catalyst says no AMD gpu found so I get no graphics acceleration and shit re-draws slow and videos stutter.
 
Zepher said:
I'll give that a shot if I can get my AMD drivers to load. My Laptop has dual graphics, HD4200 and HD5xxx, and I've tried 3 times so far and the driver installs but after reboot Catalyst says no AMD gpu found so I get no graphics acceleration and shit re-draws slow and videos stutter.
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That is what I hate about HP dual graphics laptop solutions, they never update their drivers beyond that initially release. Otherwise, those laptops were quite good. Is there a way to disable the 4200 part because that is legacy and AMD does not support them anymore.
 
ManofGod said:
That is what I hate about HP dual graphics laptop solutions, they never update their drivers beyond that initially release. Otherwise, those laptops were quite good. Is there a way to disable the 4200 part because that is legacy and AMD does not support them anymore.
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dunno, but I will see if there is anything in BIOS, which I doubt.
I checked their website and the only Windows they have drivers for is Windows 7, not even 8 is listed for this laptop. It's an HP DV7 4060us 17.3". really nice laptop and works great with Win 7, has 2 drive bays, have a 128GB SSD and a 750GB Black in it.
May have to just go back to 7 if there aren't going to be video drivers for it since I use to play videos when I do use it.
 
tec805 said:
I call BS. Anyone who says they moved all their business machines to a brand new, untested, unproven OS is telling fibs, smoking crack or running a business that doesn't rely on PC's to stay in business. Most businesses that hadn't previously moved to Windows 7 from XP did so in the past year. If I was to pull a number out of my ass I'd say 1% of businesses moved to Windows 8. Of the dozen businesses I support the single Windows 8 machine I've installed is a Surface 3 Pro.
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Agreed. I work for huge company with enough employees to populate a moderately sized city who are spread out around the world.... almost all of us are provided PCs to do our jobs. Even though we have the option of reimaging to 8.1 (and that just, happened earlier this year), I have yet to see a single person running anything other than 7. Even the brand new laptop I got today was preinstalled with Windows 7 (My previous one bit the dust last night). I don't see us moving to Windows 10 any time soon. Hell we just retired Office 2010 a few months ago, and anyone still running it will be forced to upgrade to Office 2013 in a few weeks.
 
Did 3 last night, went through clean on the machine that had a clean install of 8.1 previously. Had to mess around with the boot partition to free some space on the other 2 machines but that only took 5 mins.
 
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